Reforming America
By:Jerel Campbell
Temperance
This is the movement to ban alcohol in the U.S. because citizens feel like it's linked to sickness, poverty, domestic violence and break up of families. The American Temperance Society was the biggest supporter of this movement.
Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner was tired of being mistreated by slave owners so he started a violent campaign with 50 other slaves and they killed 60 white people before they were executed
Education
Education wasn't a big concern around this time period until Horace Mann improved curriculum, doubled funds and established teacher training programs.
Prisons and Mentally Ill
Dorothea Dix wanted to create separate facilities for prisoners and mentally ill. By the time of her death, 100 facilities were established in the U.S.
1820's Abolitionist Movement
Arose a Abolitionist Movement to free African-Americans from slavery. William LLoyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass wrote anti-slavery newspapers. Frederick Douglass was once a slave him self.